Navy is getting more and more inventive with my hair. As much as I love to see her creative side….what I really love is the feeling of my hair getting played with for 30 minutes! Nice work Navy…you are getting better and better.
Inventive
Playing With The Big Boys
While watching Micah’s soccer game, I turned around to see the cutest/saddest/sweetest scene I have ever seen. Dash saw a group of 12-13 year olds playing a game of football. He wanted to play, but was clearly too small. That didn’t stop him. As the big boys played, he stood on the side, with his arms in the air…trying to get them to throw the ball his way.
He jumped up and down, trying to get the ball…and he never did.
My heart kind of melted.
But when Dash came back, he just said, “Mom!!! I was over with those kids playing football. One time the ball landed by me, and I got to throw it back to them.”
Is that not the sweetest thing you have ever heard?
He is the stinking cutest boy on earth.
Easter
The greatest thing happened this year for Easter…it is on April Fool’s Day!!!
In honor of the day, I filled their baskets with a banana, an orange, a fig newton, and some nuts.
When they spent all morning looking for them, they were so bummed when they found them!
Navy was on to us, and said it was for sure an April’s Fool thing…but we let it play out for a while.
They finally found their stuffed eggs this year, when we sent them to Nonnie’s car on an errand!
They were very excited to see some better loot in the eggs!
After Easter in the morning (which was Conference this year!), we obviously headed up to the Brockbanks.
Where hundreds of eggs were hidden for these jokers.
(Pippi was up with Tristen, getting her own sweet basket!)
Doube Trouble
I have a sister in law, who makes her boys sit when they use the toilet. I thought that was a bit overkill until recently. My boys have great aim — or great cleaning skills…not sure which.
That is, until the last few weeks.
When I happened upon this scene, I think I figured out the problem.
March Beach Day
I am literally living in the “good ‘ol days”.
Today’s weather was glorious, so naturally, we headed down to Doheny with surfboards.
Life is really great right now, because every kid enjoys the beach, and they can all carry their own stuff!
Game Changer!
It was about the lowest tide I have seen in a long time.
So my kids took turns surfing and treasure hunting.
My kids caught everything — starfish, octopus, and even a fish!
Oh yeah — and the world’s largest sea slug I have ever seen!
On The Sly
A month or so ago, Bergeson made a rule that there would not be anymore Pokemon trading during pick up. My kids were furious. I personally thought it was a little ridiculous too–seeing as they spend six straight hours in Mandarin Chinese. But in the end, I told my kids that rules are rules.
You can imagine my surprise, when I went to pick up the kids, and Scout’s back was to me…and I could clearly tell that there was some wheeling and dealing going on.
You guessed it…Pokemon trading.
Scout got himself a pocket-sized Pokemon holder, and her is the full blown ringleader of the after school Pokemon trading.
You don’t say.
Did I get him in trouble, or give him a secret thumbs up???
I plead the fifth.
Scout has been on a reading kick this year, and it has been awesome! In english this year, he was asked to make a game board based on one of his favorite books. He obviously chose Percy Jackson, and caem up with a great game. Clearly, he had me help him draw on the board, but apparently, when they went to school to play each other’s game, his was a hit. I’ll attest to the fact that it was good, because he had the family play it before he turned it in, and it was a well thought out, and creative game!
Scout..you nailed it!
Underneath
For Family Night tonight, we did something really cool.
Since our kitchen is being remodeled, we decided that before they put the countertops on, we would write words that described the family we want to be.
Some of my favorite words were
Kind
Happy
Daring
Fun
CTR
Fabulous
Nice
Busy
Legit
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BUT OF EVERYTHING WRITTEN…MY FAVORITE BY FAR WAS
Dash, who sounded out Sacrificing.
It was the sweetest word, and his hard work to figure out how to write it was to die for!
And yes, I hope our family is sacrificing of our time, abilities and talents for those who need it, and especially for one another.
Lastly, we all traced our hand prints.
I tried to tie in “Many hands make light work”, but I had lost them by now!
(And even though I don’t want to mention it, at the beginning of this “art installation” Scout was being totally obnoxious, and was drawing annoying things. (Think booty) We changed them into flowers, but it was NOT a nice start to our Family Night. Good thing he shaped up quickly, and wrote “awesome” and “cool” before I made him write sentences on the top left quadrant!)
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Good thing we got our family night in, because first thing this morning….check out what covered it!
Zimm Hunt
After a full afternoon with friends at the Zimmerman’s house, they hosted an insane Easter Egg hunt! I’m talking over a thousand eggs! And not only were there tons…they were full of rad stuff! Lots had raffle tickets for a raffle later, and tons had money. And then there were the final eggs. The ones that had $20 - $50 dollar bills. The whole gang of 50 kids were looking ferociously for those. None of my kids were lucky enough to find them…but there was one final egg. Mike had all of the kids on the other side of the pool. When he said are you ready, unbeknownst to them, he threw it in the pool. All of the kids were in shock as to what to do, except two kids. One was an 11 year old boy, and the other was Dash.
Dash jumped in the pool so fast to get the egg, it was impressive. Unfortunately, the 11 year old boy was a faster swimmer.
I’ve got to be honest, I was so impressed with his quick reflexes. While every other kid was still digesting what had happened, Dash was already half way to the egg.
It was actually awesome.
(But also a bit of insight into why he might be King BooBoo! Acting before thought???!!!)
Scooter Discovery
Recently, Pippi discovered the scooter.
She also discovered that it gives her some new freedom she hasn’t ever experienced before.
So every afternoon after Dash gets out fo School, the first question I get is, “Mom, can Dash and I go out on our scooters?”
Then they pack up a little picnic, and scooter all over our cul de sac, before stopping on our neighbor’s lawn for their after school snack.
They have a blast doing it…they literally giggle and make plans the whole time.
And when it is time for the to get in the car to get the big kids from school, they both grumble and complain that I ruined their fun!
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